Ring of removable mail-cover for pneumatic tires.



No. 891,557; I A PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

s. A. MAEAZZANI. RING OF EEMovAELE MAIL COVER FOR PNEUMATIC TIEEAPPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1907.

v A A aozww W g Unrran SALVATORE AUTERI BIARAZZANI, OF PALERMO, ITALY.

BIN G OF REMGVABLE TRAIL-COVER FUR PNEUMATEC TIZRES.

App ication filed November Covers for Pneumatic Tires; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a lull, clear, and

exact description of the same. I This invention has for its objectseveral improvements in the rings of a removable mail cover forpneumatic tires and chiefly for those of automobile wheels.

The invention has to be considered as ap- 3endix to that for whichapplication has been ed on the 23rd of March 1907 and to which I intendto refer for all that may not be mentioned in the present spec fication.In describing my invention 1 refer to the annexed drawings illustratingthe same, and in which.

.Figure 1 is a partial elevation of a Wheel furnished with a portion ofthe mail cover equal to that shown in the drawing annexed to the/abovementioned application; Fig. 2 shows on an enlarged scale a small portionof the mail cover. Figs. 3 and e are respectively sections on lines AA BB of Fig. .2, that 18 they are cross sections oi the two series of ringsof which the mail cover is composed.

The cover of the pneumatic tire as shown in Fig. 1, is made of a stripof mail, which surrounds the whole tube and is secured in place by twogreat hoops a. T hose hoops are placed on the two borders of the mailcover and are stuck into great rings b' each of which en'ibraces threeof the rings .on the corresponding border. The

Specification oi.

Patented-June 23, 1908.

a, 1907. Serial No. 400,643

Letters Patent.

1 rings which compose the mail cover are of 4() two kinds and are pladedin alternative rows, those c just mentioned and the rings -d-. The rings-c .(Fig. 3) street a larger diameter, have a flattened rectangularsection and are of a slightly concave shape. The rings -d (Fig. 4) aresmaller and are of circular section. The rings are united by autogenousjoint.

above renders" the mail cover more uniform and compact; the fiat ringsadhere well to the surl acc of the pneumatic tire, especially onaccount/of their concave shape turned toward the said tire. I

Having now particularly described and ascertainedthe value of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is; to be performed I declarethat-what I claim is:

1. In a removable mail cover for pneumatic tires of auto mobile wheels,two series of rin s constituting alternately the cover, one 0' theseries being formed of greater rin s of flattened rectangular sectionand of slig tly concave shape, the other series-being formed (if-smallerrings of circular section.

flattened cross-section and other rings interlocking to form atprotecting fabric.

3. In a cover for pneumatic tires, concave rings of flattened.cross-section and other The conformation of the rings as described 2. Ina cover #01 pneumatic tires, rings of'

